I’ve been having some fun this winter revisiting weddings, given that one of the fun things about wedding work is that it can be constantly re-interpreted. I shoot and deliver a huge amount of photos — indeed, events are the only sort of photography where it matters how good the 500th-best photo you took in a single day was. Over the course of your life, you can divvy up your photos in different ways: photos you want to put in a gorgeous album or big on your wall; photos you want to put on Facebook to show off the fun your friends had; photos your parents will put on their fridge. But you can also come back to photos and see them in different ways. With the number of photos in a wedding, it’s like that each time you see a photo and it feels like a welcome surprise.
And so I come back to Amanda and Mitchell’s wonderful wedding at the Tappan Hill Mansion to show a different way to view the images — entirely in black and white. I actually give black and white copies of each wedding photo I deliver, and it’s a great way to make it feel fresh and tell the story in new ways. Here I feel the tone highlights the deeply felt emotion of the day. Enjoy!
